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3 reviews
Spalding Gray

Vintage, 1986

Hwo could such a goof pay such close attention?
These essays are nothing compared to hearing the man actually relate them, but are nonetheless invaluable illustrations of the human condition. Spalding Gray may never learn his lesson, at least not until he's had lots of time to obsess over his mistakes. This has been his MO since his first theater piece, and will prbably follow him to the grave. Never is his wit and hindsight better aimed than ...

Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue

7 reviews
Spalding Gray

Crown, 2005

A Bittersweet Homage to Spalding Gray
Nearing his 60th birthday in 2001, Spalding Gray was enjoying family life with his wife and two kids, and pondering the next step in his career as a popular monologue performer and writer. Then a horrific car accident in Ireland changed everything for Gray. Severe injuries left him debilitated for months, with chronic severe pain afterwards, and plunged him into deep depression. Yet he ...

Monster in a Box

2 reviews
Spalding Gray

Vintage, 1992

My Favorite
Spalding Gray's suicide robbed us of our finest raconteur. His monologues were funny as hell, but they were also deep and thought-provoking at the same time. He is missed. "Monster in a Box" is my favorite of Spalding's monologues- even better than "Swimming to Cambodia", in my opinion. I think with this one he really hit his stride.

Swimming to Cambodia: The Collected Works of Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray

Theatre Communications Group, 1987

Impossible Vacation

5 reviews
Spalding Gray

Vintage, 1993

Impossible to never forget
"I just accepted that as a part of my life, accepted that forever I would always be a little in the place that I was not.." With that begins the melancholic search of meaning for the main character of the book Brewster North. After having received a monkey mask from his uncle's adventures in Bali at a tender age of 5, Brewster longs for that Impossible Vacation. Knowing for a fact that wherever ...

Gray's Anatomy

2 reviews
Spalding Gray

Vintage, 1993

My Heart is Popping
To be able to see this maverick original perform live would have been a treat. Sadly he is no longer alive, and that is a shame for the theatrical, cinematic and literate world. I have known about Gray for years now, but had never read his work until Gray's Anatomy, which I took from the library. What a fun and easy read it proved to be. While his neurosis is full blast, it is endearing ...

It's a Slippery Slope

6 reviews
Spalding Gray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997

Going Down
As usual Spalding Gray has done it again.Very entertaining and witted.Just love the audio too, can never get enough of Spalding.I highly recommend all his works.

Swimming to Cambodia

17 reviews
Spalding Gray

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

Enthralling and captivating
First of all this is a monologue and I usually hate monologues. The first time I watched this was starting at midnight and I was quite tired. I was expecting to fall asleep to it but found myself wide awake and engrossed. I was absolutely mesmerized by this performance. Spalding Gray just captivates you from the very beginning and holds your attention all the way through. He mixes it with bits of ...

Morning, Noon and Night

10 reviews
Spalding Gray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

Peace of mind through displaced anxiety
This is the most recent of Spalding Gray's monologues and as much as I love his work if he ends his autobiographical pieces here I would be happy, there's a feeling of closure and joy to this work. If you've read (or seen or listened to) much of his work and have warmed to Mr Gray this will delight you and make you feel very happy for the man - he's finally laid many demons to rest. After the ...

Terrors of Pleasure

2 reviews
Spalding Gray

Gang of Seven, 1993

The little monologue that screamed with laughter
Laughed so hard I cannot listen to this album all of the way through in one sitting. I think it benefits from the lack of a 'moral to the story.' It's just Spalding relating his life for the cautionary tale it is. Required listening for first-time home buyers, it's the story of how he was bullied, albeit willingly, to buy a house he felt pity for: "The little house that cried." (Better that shack ...

Swimming to Cambodia - Playbill, Lincoln Center Theatre, New York
Spalding Gray, Playbill Magazine

Playbill Magazine, 1986

Theatre program for limited engagement performance of Gray's dramatic monologue.

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